An excerpt from this story on CNN.com:

"It's just unbelievable," his wife, Robin Johnson, said Friday. "Somebody out at the hospital didn't notice that a man was laying there for such a long period of time and not moving? Why didn't anybody check?"Maybe because they were BUSY SAVING PATIENTS' LIVES YOU STUPID BITCH! Jesus, why are people always ( Read more... )

University of Hawaii at Manoa - Japanese Linguistics PhD Program

I wonder if I could get in... Who else is taking the GRE?

Did you know they had CostCo in Japan? I didn't.

This is another very useful, interesting website: Kansai Time Out

D'oh.

Just sitting here surfing the net for a few minutes, killing time before my Buddhism class... I was just going to post that link to the new iPod thing, but when I pushed alt+V to paste it this came out:

Hello, Antonia this is Emanuel Bka preyonline I've tried ( Read more... )

Naa, ya naaLinguists have decided that Kansai’s characteristic naa is the world’s third most difficult word to translate. One thousand linguists consulted in the survey by Today Translations decided that the most difficult word was ilunga from DR Congo. It means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second ( Read more... )

This is what's known as shitty journalism.

"A homeland security official told CNN on Sunday there is 'no intelligence terrorists are planning to or want to do this.'"

No kidding? So you think you could... Not report it, then? Unbelievable.

So when the train pulled into the station this morning I immediately noticed something different about it... The seats were all rearranged and there were new handrails and straps to hold onto! It was a test car for the new CTA seating arrangement or something. It's got a lot more space... I don't know why someone didn't think of it earlier, the ( Read more... )

In our troubled times, why can't we read more news stories like this one:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/16/highway.bees.ap/index.html

Just good old-fashioned, bee-filled mayhem. Ahhh yes.

So I finished that paper yesterday, and emailed it to the professor right at 5:00, the deadline. I had written about 10 pages of text, then the bibliography, and I also attached a bunch of diagrams and the like... Altogether it came out to 16 pages total, not the minimum 20 he had specified earlier. So I sent him a really apologetic email along ( Read more... )

Holy shit. I just looked in my email because I forgot how long this paper that I'm writing was supposed to be:

"The finished document should be at least 20 pages long, double-spaced, including
notes, bibliography, tables, charts, illustrations, etc."

I am so fucked. It's due in 4 hours... And I'm on page 3.